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Re: SMC Ether Power PCI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Baba Z Buehler)
Sat Jan 13 17:44:44 1996
Reply-to: Baba Z Buehler <baba@beckman.uiuc.edu>
From: Baba Z Buehler <baba@beckman.uiuc.edu>
To: cjwoods@gigotech.net
cc: Michael Chui <mchui@cs.indiana.edu>, redhat-list@redhat.com,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linuadmin@sluh.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 08:45:19 EST."
<Pine.LNX.3.91.960103084407.1381C-100000@angus.gigotech.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 09:04:42 -0600
Chris Woods <cjwoods@gigotech.net> writes:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Michael Chui wrote:
>
> > retsam@sluh.edu writes:
> > > Does anyone know if Linux supports the Ether power PCI Ethernet
> > >adapter? I recently purchased one because I heard that linux did support i
> t.
> > >I've re compiled my kernel to include all the SMC cards but it didnt
> > >mention the etherpower and Linux did not recognize the card.
> >
> > The SMC EtherPower card uses the DEC 21040 chipset, for which
>
> [...]
>
> Actually, I believe the newer SMC EtherPower 10/100 cards use the DEC
> 21041 chip, which is significantly different enough from the 21040 so as
> to render the driver unusable as-is.
>
I have been using the DE435 driver with my SMC EtherPower card for a while now
and it seems to work very well.
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